Pauline Kael Quotes
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.
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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
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In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.
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My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.
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Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.
